He famously said that unlike fathers of most teenage girls he had few qualms about his daughters dating. As first daughters, they had Secret Service protection.
So Barack Obama presumably had little to say when pictures emerged of Malia, 19, locked in a clinch with a young man identified as Rory Farquharson, a British public schoolboy studying at Harvard.
The son of an investment banker, Mr Farquharson, 19, a former head of school at Rugby, was shown embracing the daughter of the former president at a Harvard-Yale social gathering in New Haven, before a football game on Saturday afternoon. Bystanders interrupted the young couple to ask for pictures and selfies.
Mr Farquharson began his undergraduate studies at Harvard last year, with a Facebook post of